Tag: Administration

Apologies for not blogging for sometime. I have been away on vacation, out of the country on training plus work commitments so add that up and it equals and enforced hiatus. Plus of course do not forget the Volcano :). Well I am back now and have an interesting information around Event Log access and…

Apologies for not blogging recent weeks. I have been tremendously busy plus working out of the country My good friend Justin Zarb showed me this the other day. Microsoft Desktop Player This is a great utility that gives you a platform to search for technet content based around . You can either use the online…

Myself and a colleague Mark Empson have been developing a New Service entitled a GPO Health Check that looks at every aspect of the health of your Group Policies. Well one of the tests involved was checking for any Group Policies that had only the Read Group Policy Object permission and not the Apply Group…

Hello, I had an interesting customer request recently that I thought I would share with you. Prior to an upgrade to 2003 they had an account which was used for Remote Desktop Users. On upgrading to 2003 this account became replaced by a System Owned Object with exactly the same name. So their question to…

Hi I recently had an interesting question posed by my customer with regards to search issues within Outlook 2007 and the way WDS works in Windows Vista and Windows 7 The user in question used outlook for around 80% of their working day. This involved them search for work orders and service requests and dealing…

Hi , I had an interesting issue with a customer recently. After a recent promotion of a couple of Domain Controllers , it came to light some time later that users were able to set their passwords to 0 e.g. minimum password length = 0. On investigation what was discovered was the following. When the…

well this is a rather neat addition to our methods of learning. If you really want to just dip your toe into a subject and have a “snack” then please see the following range of “Learning Snacks” For other Windows Server 2008 Learning Snacks, please visit: Windows Server 2008 Introducing Branch Office Server in…

Hi Everyone, If you have received this Security Alert 971492 and you wish to verify whether your IIS 6.0 Web Servers have the Webdav Extension enabled, then please see below for a useful script which you can run across your environment. Please of course test this in a pre-production environment prior to deployment in your…

Something has been bugging me recently. I am seeing allot of customers taking the “easy” option when it comes to delegating out permissions for their various tiers of support staff to support their environment e.g. making everyone remotely associated with the support of their Environment Domain Administrators. This really is definitely not Microsoft recommended best…

Kevin Beares blog has a very interesting blog entry on “Centro”. This looks like an exciting opportunity to get involved early on in the new Microsoft infrastructure solution that is aimed at midsize businesses with less that 250 PCs. If you are interested in getting involved, in the Centro Beta or Tap Programmed, then go to the…